2 Corinthians 4:12

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As a result, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

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  • 2 Cor 13:9 : 9 For we rejoice whenever we are weak, but you are strong. And we pray for this: that you may become fully qualified.
  • 1 Cor 4:10 : 10 We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ! We are weak, but you are strong! You are distinguished, we are dishonored!
  • 1 John 3:16 : 16 We have come to know love by this: that Jesus laid down his life for us; thus we ought to lay down our lives for our fellow Christians.
  • Acts 20:24 : 24 But I do not consider my life worth anything to myself, so that I may finish my task and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the good news of God’s grace.
  • 2 Cor 12:15 : 15 Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?
  • Phil 2:17 : 17 But even if I am being poured out like a drink offering on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I am glad and rejoice together with all of you.
  • Phil 2:30 : 30 since it was because of the work of Christ that he almost died. He risked his life so that he could make up for your inability to serve me.

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    6For God, who said“Let light shine out of darkness,” is the one who shined in our hearts to give us the light of the glorious knowledge of God in the face of Christ.

    7An Eternal Weight of Glory But we have this treasure in clay jars, so that the extraordinary power belongs to God and does not come from us.

    8We are experiencing trouble on every side, but are not crushed; we are perplexed, but not driven to despair;

    9we are persecuted, but not abandoned; we are knocked down, but not destroyed,

    10always carrying around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our body.

    11For we who are alive are constantly being handed over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus may also be made visible in our mortal body.

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    8For we do not want you to be unaware, brothers and sisters, regarding the affliction that happened to us in the province of Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond our strength, so that we despaired even of living.

    9Indeed we felt as if the sentence of death had been passed against us, so that we would not trust in ourselves but in God who raises the dead.

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    13But since we have the same spirit of faith as that shown in what has been written,“I believed; therefore I spoke,” we also believe, therefore we also speak.

    14We do so because we know that the one who raised up Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will bring us with you into his presence.

    15For all these things are for your sake, so that the grace that is including more and more people may cause thanksgiving to increase to the glory of God.

    16Therefore we do not despair, but even if our physical body is wearing away, our inner person is being renewed day by day.

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    10But if Christ is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is your life because of righteousness.

    11Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead lives in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive through his Spirit who lives in you.

    12So then, brothers and sisters, we are under obligation, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh

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    14For the love of Christ controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christ died for all; therefore all have died.

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